This page is for a list of key resources that will help the description process.

• Step by step instructions for cataloging photos for the project can be found via Google Docs here

• Location of encoded authorities: W:\university_photographs_project\authorities
• Location of MODS XML templates: W:\university_photographs_project\templates

• University Photos in Credo| Go here to search existing University Photo collection. | hint: to find an exact image, you must type the MODS filename without the '.xml', e.g “murg150-i0003928”.

• List of faculty members
• List of Presidents
• List of Chancellors
• General Catalogue of Mass Aggie| Includes officers of government and instructors for 1863-1886.
• 1916 Index with photos of old buildings| On the occasion of UMass' 50th Anniv. See pp 31-50.
• Campus Memorials
• Links to Yearbooks on Archive.org| via the YouMass wiki.
• UMass Archives finding aid
• You Mass wiki| For historical info on well known figures and buildings at Umass. Still growing.
• Concordance| A comprehensive alphabetical index of UMass departments, programs, and other units, including acronyms
• Massachusetts Agricultural College in the War (1921)| A full-text searchable book of students who fought during World War I.

• Massachusetts Agricultural College: 1863-1931
• Massachusetts State College: 1931-1947
• University of Massachusetts at Amherst: 1947-